Chi Trib reporter-on-fellowship Tim Dechant has apparently drunk the global-warming Kool-Aid, to judge by his earnest, detailed treatment of measuring and lessening one’s “carbon footprint.”
In his 973 words — roughly 2/3 the size of a major-takeout “Insight” feature at the old Chicago Daily News — he has not a word of any controversy in the question whether what we do will change global cycles of warming and cooling.
Not a hint.
And to think that one quote could have perked up somnolent Trib readers, who have refused to support retention of various editors and reporters, namely this:
[W]ater in the form of oceans, snow, ice cover, clouds and vapor “is overwhelming in the radiative and energy balance between the Earth and the sun. … Carbon dioxide and the greenhouse gases are, by comparison, the equivalent of a few farts in a hurricane.”
That’s from one Martin Hertzberg, a retired combustion research scientist who as a Navy meteorologist acquired “a lifelong mistrust of climate modeling” — the bread and butter of climate worriers.
He is quoted in a Heartland Institute paper engagingly titled, “Is Global Warming a Sin?”
Even in pre-telephone and -digital messaging age, the institute, conveniently located at 19 S. LaSalle, would have been accessible to Dechant, were he and his editors — including the bought-out Gratteau? — willing to entertain any but popular certainties about science.
Blithe Spirit 
I’ve sent quite a number of letters to the Tribune, with copies to the editor and public editor, that told of the many skeptics world-wide whose viewpoints are at odds with those of Al Gore and others who refuse to allow the other side to be heard. In my last Trib letter a week or so ago, I challenged the Tribune to contact Chicago’s Heartland Institute so that the other side could be heard. Naturally my suggestion went no where. The Heritage Foundation is also doing excellent research to bring clarity and sense to the climate change issue. What is most frightening is that both John McCain and Barack Obama have bought into climate change as man made, which many feel is the biggest hoax ever on the American people. The changes sought “to save the planet” would severely affect this nation’s economy, yet global warming is far from settled science. Unfortunately impressionalbe children are being indoctrinated into believing that global warming is a serious threat to the planet.
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Did the article suggest newspapers could help by going paperless?
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